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Last week, we reported about the increasing popularity of Second Life and its maximum predominance existing in Europe. Well, all smiles for that. But now here’s something that’s sure to get a grim.

German police is investigating the Second Life after some members accused the virtual world to be involved in trading child abuse images in the online world.

The investigation kicked off after a report by a German TV news program which unraveled the trading group and members who pay for sex with virtual children.

The police are now trying to nab the Second Life members involved.

Linden Lab, the creator of Second Life, said it would help identify users and pass on details to prosecutors.

The investigation was conducted by Nick Schader from the Report Mainz news program who is also a member of Second Life.

Schader then paid a small fee to attend a child pornography meeting in Second Life, where virtual and real child pornography was being shown; which finally led to contact with players trading real child pornography.

Members of this group also offered to put him in touch with traders of real child pornography.

Further on, the investigation also uncovered so called “age play” groups that revolve around the abuse of virtual children.

Information gathered during the report was passed to the prosecutor’s office in Halle who said it hoped to track down the German Second Life user who shared the images of virtual child pornography.

“We are trying to find out the identity of this person because what is being offered is nothing short of child pornography,” chief prosecutor Peter Vogt said on German television. advertisement

While in the United States “virtual” child pornography is not a crime, in Germany it is punishable by three months to five years in prison.